Open letter criticising PEN America’s stance on Israel-Gaza war reaches 500 signatories | Books

Open letter criticising PEN America’s stance on Israel-Gaza war reaches 500 signatories | Books

An open letter from writers and literary professionals to PEN America calling on the organisation to take a stronger stance on the Israel-Gaza war has reached more than 500 signatories, including writers... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Monday, February 12th

Daily Cartoon: Monday, February 12th

“Honest! It’s not a time machine so I can find out if you meant it when you said you didn’t want anything for Valentine’s Day.” Source link Read more »
Briefly Noted Book Reviews

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

“The Revolutionary Temper,” “A City on Mars,” “The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild,” and “Behind You Is the Sea.” Source link Read more »
Open letter criticising PEN America’s stance on Israel-Gaza war reaches 500 signatories | Books

Struggles for Black Citizenship in Multic…

Raising Two Fists is a historically grounded ethnography of Afro-Colombian political mobilization after the multicultural turn that swept Latin America in the 1990s, when states began to recognize and legally enshrine rights... Read more »
The House of Broken Bricks by Fiona Williams review – a tender tale of race and roots | Fiction

The House of Broken Bricks by Fiona Williams review – a tender tale of race and roots | Fiction

At one point in Fiona Williams’s accomplished debut novel, an elderly lady tells 10-year-old Max Hembry that the broken bricks employed to build his family’s cottage were also used as ballast at... Read more »
Briefly Noted Book Reviews

Contents of Charles Darwin’s entire personal library revealed for first time | Charles Darwin

Details of Charles Darwin’s vast personal library, from a paper on epileptic guinea pigs to the Elizabeth Gaskell novel he adored, are being published in their entirety for the first time. The... Read more »
The Oscar Nominee Cord Jefferson on Why Race Is So “Fertile” for Comedy

The Oscar Nominee Cord Jefferson on Why Race Is So “Fertile” for Comedy

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. The writer and director Cord Jefferson has struck gold with... Read more »
All you need is love songs: 12 novelists pick their favourite romantic tracks | Music

All you need is love songs: 12 novelists pick their favourite romantic tracks | Music

Monica Heisey The author of Really Good, Actually on Being Alive from the musical Company, by Stephen Sondheim My favourite love song is maybe a little untraditional in that it’s not addressed... Read more »
Open letter criticising PEN America’s stance on Israel-Gaza war reaches 500 signatories | Books

Jamie Dornan fled to rural hideaway after ‘ridicule’ over Fifty Shades of Grey | Jamie Dornan

Jamie Dornan fled to a rural hide­away when critics panned his performance in Fifty Shades of Grey, the actor has revealed. An empty house – offered as a retreat by his director,... Read more »
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